On Jul 7, 6:21*pm, r...@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) wrote:

* Possibly, you can create a new ostream object associated with
* stdout and then use this with custom settings instead of cout.

That is as simple as -

std::ostream out(std::cout.rdbuf());

out << "state free formatted output";

Kind regards,
Vladimir

Hi all,

thank you very much to everyone for your answers, they helped a lot!

The boost stream-state saver library sounds good, but I guess that the own ostream instance as
described by Vladimir and Ali, that is:

vova777@gmail.com wrote:

std::ostream out(std::cout.rdbuf());
out << "state free formatted output";

is what I was looking for and fits my case best.

Many thanks for your help!

Best regards,
Carsten